Overview

Inscription

Marks and Labels

Provenance

Maurice Kann, Paris; (Duveen Brothers), 1908, as part of the Kann collection; purchased February 1910 by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.[1]

[1] This dish may well be the one "with the Emperor Nero, initial and crown, surrounded by scale ornaments, in metallic luster, 16 3/4 in. diameter" sold from the collection of Auguste Ricard de Montferrand of Saint Petersburg at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 14-16 November 1859, no. 237.

Bibliography

Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 55, as Deruta, c. 1520.

1942

Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 12, as Deruta, about 1520.

1982

NGA 1982-1983, no. 16.

1983

Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 124-125, no. 4, repro., as Deruta, first third of sixteenth century.

Technical Summary

Earthenware, covered on the front and partially on the edge with a white tin
glaze, on the back with a pockmarked semitranslucent creamy brown glaze
overlying streaks of tin glaze. The painting is in blue, with luster varying
from yellowish gold to patchy pink. In the foot ring are two holes, made before
firing, placed so that the dish hangs correctly from them. There are several
kiln scars on the back, beneath the rim and the curving sides of the well.
Slight cracks run from the edge at six o'clock and ten o'clock. There is wear
and chipping on the outer and inner edges of the rim, with extensive overpaint
on the outer edge. The glaze on the front is somewhat scratched.